Columbia Pictures opened David Gordon Green’s “Pineapple Express” in 3,072 theaters on August 6, 2008. Ten years later, the film remains one of the most classic stoner movies ever made., who co-wrote the comedy with Evan Goldberg and starred on screen opposite and Danny McBride, celebrated the film’s 10th anniversary by revealing a handful of amazing fun facts about making “Pineapple Express.” Rogen kicked off his look back at “Pineapple Express” with the revelation that it was him and Goldberg who rolled all out of the joints seen on screen during the film. The actor explained that the two writers had to roll the joints because no one else on set could roll a joint properly. Rogen also cleared up the rumor about the film’s title: “Pineapple Express” was not named after a strain of weed (in fact, the strain did not exist before the film premiered) but after a Hawaiian weather system that sometimes hits the Pacific Northwest. “Pineapple Express” ended up grossing $101 million worldwide opposite a $27 million budget, making it a huge victory for Columbia.
The movie was produced by Judd Apatow. Celebrate the film’s 10th anniversary with the facts below. In, me and my co-writer Evan had to roll all the cross joints needed to film (about 100) ourselves because nobody else on the crew could roll them properly. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) The name was around for years before the movie. It’s a Hawaiian weather system that sometimes hits the Pacific Northwest, which is where we’re from. Evan heard the name and said “that would be a great name for a movie.” Years later we found a perfect fit. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) There was NO strain of weed called when we made the movie.
We said “if one day, people are out there selling weed called Pineapple Express, it worked”. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) Throughout the fight scene in Red’s house in, I broke my finger and Danny McBride got his head cracked open when Franco hit him with the bong.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) The reason Saul wears a headband in is the result of another injury. There’s a shot (that’s in the movie) when we are running through the woods, Franco hits his head on a tree.
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He actually hit his head on a screw that was holding a pad in place and got stitches. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) In, Red refers to his ex wife having gotten out of jail recently. There’s a pic of Red and his ex wife, who was played by Stormy Daniels.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) We wrote express for me to play Saul and Franco to play Dale. James wanted to switch roles, and I didn’t care that much, so we did.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) The shots of the dick drawings on the principals desk in Superbad was actually filmed on the set of in the woods while we were shooting Dale and Saul destroying their cell phones. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) In, Red was originally supposed to die the first time he was shot when he was tied up in his apartment, but we thought Danny Mcbride was so funny that we just kept bringing him back to life. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) While we were filming the scene where Red is taped to the chair in, Danny had to actually be taped in the chair all day and we couldn’t let him out because it took too long to put him back. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) I did my 99% of my own stunts in, (which might explain all the injuries) including this one: — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) In, originally, Red killed Matheson with a Ford Fiesta, but Ford didn’t want their car involved in a movie murder so we had to change it to a Daewoo Lanos, which is ultimately much funnier I think.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) Huey Lewis and the News recorded an original theme song for. We were inspired by our favorite 80s movies that had rock songs with their titles. Here he is performing it on Kimmel: via — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) We DID have a smoking billboard for that got shut down by the fire department because people keep thinking it was on fire. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) The song Paper Planes by MIA does not actually appear in the movie, just the trailer.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) Of all the weird references in, my favorite is to the fact that Matheson is wearing “British Knights”, because when I was a kid I wore the fuck out of my BK’s. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen).